Mattias Nordqvist

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on risk taking as one important dimension of entrepreneurial orientation and its impact in family firms and find that risk taking is a distinct dimension of entrepreneurship orientation in families and that it is positively associated with proactiveness and innovation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop an organizational identity-based rationale for why family firms strive for non-financial goals. And they suggest that the concern for corporate reputation leads the family to pursue nonfinancial goals to the benefit of nonfamily stakeholders.

TL;DR: In this article, a generational perspective was adopted to investigate entrepreneurial orientation in family firms and found that the importance of non-family investors on EO is particularly strong in third-generation-and-beyond firms.

TL;DR: This article investigated transgenerational entrepreneurship of families and found evidence for their argument in that such a level shift reveals extended entrepreneurial activity, which is missed when focusing exclusively on the firm level.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between organizational culture and the entrepreneurial process that is viewed as radical change in the context of the family business and concluded that to support entrepreneurial processes, managers need to foster a process of high-order learning in which old cultural patterns are continuously questioned and changed.